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Puzzle#168

Countdown

Released: 2026-04-13


11
Models Tested
1
Solved
9
LLM Providers

Key:

Used
Unused

Score Threshold:

Within 7

google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

((75 + 50 + 7) * 3) + 25 * 3

= 471

Failed

anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(75 * 3 * 3) + 50 + 25 - 7

= 743

Failed

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(75 * 7) + 25 + 50 - 3 - 3

= 594

Failed

deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

((75 * (50 - (25 - 3))) - 7)

= 2093

Failed

Z.ai

z-ai/glm-5

z-ai

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(75 * (7 + 3)) + 3 * 50

= 900

Failed

x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

((75 + 25) * (7 + 3) - 50 - 3)

= 947

Close; 1 away

Minimax

minimax/minimax-m2.5

minimax

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

50 * 25 - 75 * 3 - 3

= 1022

Failed

openai/gpt-4o

openai

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(25 * 3 * 3) + (50 * 7) - 75

= 500

Failed

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

((75 + 50 + 25) * (7 + 3)) + 3

= 1503

Failed

MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

moonshot

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(50 - 7) * ((75 / 3) - 3)

= 946

Perfect Solution!

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

anthropic

946Target
25
75
50
7
3
3

(75 + 3) * (25 - 50 / 7 * 3)

= 278

Failed

Methodology Note

Each model receives the same prompt with the numbers to use. Models are tasked with creating an expression using only arithmetic operations to reach the target number. Each number can only be used once and you do not have to use all the numbers. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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